Uncle Wang strode forward and gave a hard blow to the man's calf with a club.
Wu Gui immediately knelt on the ground.
Aunt Wang still wasn't satisfied. She kicked him twice on the buttocks and cursed, "You heartless bastard! You scumbag who'll have sons without an anus! How dare you bully others!"
Those people surrounded Wu Gui and started beating him with hammers and shovels.
"Ouch! Ouch!" Wu Gui cried out in pain.
Just as everyone was in the heat of the fight,
someone standing at the alley entrance shouted, "The police are coming! The police are coming! Make way!"
Everyone instinctively let go and looked at the police at the alley entrance with innocent expressions.
When the police rushed over in a hurry,
on one side were the indignant and high - spirited crowd, and on the other side was Wu Gui, lying on the ground with a bruised face, howling.
For a moment, it was hard to tell who the victim was.
Someone in the crowd shouted, "Comrade policeman, there's someone bullying a little girl here! We're all witnesses."
Aunt Wang stepped forward and carefully described the whole incident to the police.
The policeman looked serious and shouted into the crowd, "Which one is Li Chuchu?"
Li Chuchu stepped out and said, "I am."
The policeman asked Li Chuchu to investigate the cause and process of the incident.
Li Chuchu told the whole story about her family situation, work disputes, and the stalking in detail.
The neighbors who had been hot - blooded just now were a bit scared when they saw the police coming. After all, they only knew that someone was bullying a little girl in the alley but didn't know the whole story.
They were worried that if they really beat the man too badly, they might get into trouble.
But when they heard Li Chuchu talk about her family affairs, they looked at Wu Gui with contempt and only regretted that they hadn't beaten him harder.
How could there be such a rascal in the world?
He actually had his eyes on the inheritance left by the mother to the child.
Serves him right!
The crowd became confident. Even when the police looked over, they all straightened their backs.
They didn't do anything immoral. They were all doing just deeds!
The policeman was a bit helpless. They had already beaten the man like this. What was the use of them policemen?
As a routine, the policeman took Aunt Wang and Li Chuchu back to the police station to take their statements. After the statements were taken, they were released.
At the entrance of the police station,
Li Chuchu looked at the enthusiastic and sincere faces of everyone.
She was really touched.
She never thought that these neighbors she had never interacted with before were so kind - hearted. When they rushed out with their tools, she was completely stunned.
"Thank you all so much today! Come to my place for dinner tonight. I'll treat you with good fish and meat. Let's have a good time together." Li Chuchu said sincerely.
Before, the neighbors had some prejudices against Li Chuchu. But after this incident, they learned that Li Chuchu had such a miserable life experience, so they felt a bit of sympathy for her.
Moreover, Li Chuchu was good - looking and so polite.
Everyone unconsciously favored her.
"Oh, we're all neighbors. Don't be so polite."
"Yes, yes. Let's all go back. You should also go back and have a good rest. I think your stepmother is not a good person. You should be careful of her."
"I have a baby at home. We'll go back first."
After so many things happened today, no one wanted to cause trouble for her. Soon, everyone went back to their own homes.
The police station called the neighborhood committee to report this incident.
After the neighborhood committee learned about it, they issued a certificate of "helping the weak when seeing injustice" to Aunt Wang.
Aunt Wang was happy for a long time after getting the certificate. She even framed it and would start chattering about that day's incident whenever she met someone.
"At that time, I saw a strange man in the alley. I rushed up right away, took off my shoe and slapped him in the face. That man even wanted to fight back. He should have inquired before coming. I was famous for my hot temper when I was young. Could he get the better of me?"
When she got excited, she would even ask the neighbors to testify for her.
The courtyard was still noisy...
The police station sent a notice to the family. Wu Gui was going to be detained for fifteen days for picking a quarrel and making trouble.
Hearing this news,
Wu Li almost broke several bowls.
What's going on?
She thought her brother just went to scare Li Chuchu. How could he be arrested for picking a quarrel and making trouble?
She didn't even have time to cook. She rushed to the police station immediately.
The police only gave her half an hour to visit the prisoner.
As soon as Wu Li entered the police station, she saw her brother with a bruised face. She felt so heart - broken that she stamped her feet outside, "Brother, what happened to you! Didn't I tell you to stay in the hostel? Why did you cause trouble again?"
Wu Gui, who had been huddled dejectedly in the cell, suddenly rushed to the railing when he saw his sister and complained, "Oh, stop talking. Hurry up and get me something to eat. The food here is really inedible."
Wu Li was afraid that her brother was having a hard time inside. She quickly bought a roasted chicken from a shop near the police station and gave it to him.
Wu Gui grabbed a chicken leg and wolfed it down.
While chewing, he wiped the oil off his mouth. His mouth was full of chicken, and he said in a slurred voice, "Sister... Hurry up and find a way to get me out. This is really not a place for humans. I can't sleep well at night, and I can't eat well. I've lost weight these days."
"Okay, I'll go talk to the police and see if I can bail you out."
"Hurry up, hurry up."
Wu Li went back and asked the police, "Comrade policeman, I'm Wu Gui's family member. May I ask how much money I need to pay to bail my brother out?"
As she said that, she was about to take out her wallet.
Seeing her familiar actions, the policeman guessed that this was not the first time the family member of the prisoner had come to clean up the mess for the prisoner.
After working in the police station for so many years, the policeman had seen the most unrepentant prisoners and the family members who followed behind to clean up their mess.
The policeman's attitude was quite good, "Your brother's case belongs to maliciously picking a quarrel and making trouble. To bail him out, you need the victim's letter of understanding and a bail of fifty yuan."
A letter of understanding?
Wu Li felt a chill in her heart.
If she went to Li Chuchu, she definitely wouldn't sign it.
She could only ask Li Jianmin to come forward.
"Okay, I see. Thank you, Comrade policeman."
Wu Li went back and told her brother, then went home with a heavy heart.
In the evening, Li Jianmin came back.
Wu Li had been restless all day. When she saw Li Jianmin come back, she immediately told him about this, "Jianmin, my brother has been arrested by the police station! He needs Li Chuchu's letter of understanding to be bailed out."
Li Jianmin frowned slightly.
Wu Li's brother loved to cause trouble.
He had never been a good - for - nothing before, and now he was just like a hooligan.
Li Jianmin didn't have a good impression of him, so his tone didn't change much, "What's going on? Didn't he stay in the hostel these days and was going to look for a job in the city? How did he get involved with Li Chuchu again?"